Leisure: There Is Nothing Like a Game

Having won nine National Basketball
Association championships in the past ten years, the Boston Celtics are
naturally the prime target of any team in the league. Now the Celtics
have finally been takenbut not by an N.B.A. rival. The taker is P.
Ballantine & Sons, the big Newark-based brewer (estimated 1967 sales:
$90 million). Ballantine paid a Manhattan real estate investment
company some $4,000,000 for the team.

In today's rush to diversify, nothing attracts corporations more than
recreation. Recent takeovers have included those by Chicago's Victor
Comptometer of the company that makes Daisy BB guns, by Cleveland's
"Automatic" Sprinkler Corp....